Army Surgeon
Heard the latest?
Captain Robert G. Shaw
What's that?
Army Surgeon
Well, I heard it from a friend who's a dispatch rider, who got it from a friend of his who's one of Stanton's clerks in the War Office. He says Lincoln is gonna issue an Emancipation Proclamation. Gonna free the slaves.
Captain Robert G. Shaw
What?
Army Surgeon
Well, maybe not the ones in the border states or somethin', I don't know, but he's gonna free some of 'em, anyway.
Captain Robert G. Shaw
My God.
Army Surgeon
Yeah, he said he would have done it sooner, only he was waiting on a big victory, which is, I guess what this is.
